Abstract:

This dissertation focuses on the confrontation of Anarchism and the politicization of the Jewishidentity. It analyzes the Jewish participation in the anarchist movement and thought, the anarchist positions on the spread of Antisemitism and Zionism and, finally, the attempt to fit the national concept into anarchist thought.

The dissertation is divided in two parts. Chapters 2, 3 and 4 consider the internationalist background of anarchist thought, the process of politicization of the European Jewry and the theoretical debates and pragmatical strategies used in dealing with that process. We will highlight here the difficulties for Anarchism in drawing from these experiences its own theoretical and political approach.

In the second part we will draw our attention to the attempts at reconciliation between Anarchism and Zionism. Chapter 5 tackles Gustav Landauer and Martin Buber’s work. They are responsible in reading the anarchist thought from a national and communitarian point of view. Chapter 6 allows us to analyze the drift of this conception in the experience of kibbutzim in Palestine.